Basting brush



May 13, 1958 L. R. SCHUMANN BASTING BRUSH Filed June 27, 1955 1 m ElINVENTOR.

A T TORNE Y United States Patent BASTING BRUSH Lawrence R. Schumann,Boston, Mass.

Application June 27, 1955, Serial No. 518,139

1 Claim. (Cl. 15-160) This invention comprises a new and improvedbasting brush so constructed and arranged that the troublesome operationof basting a hot roast of large and irregular shape may be carried outmore conveniently and thoroughly than heretofore either in the kitchenor at an outdoor barbecue.

My improved brush has a long light-weight handle that permits the userto manipulate the brush at a comfor-table distance from the hot pan orspit. It also supplies a compact body of bristles in the position mostconvenient for brushing over the surface of a roast and reachingover-hanging or awkwardly disposed portions thereof such as sides, underwings, drumsticks, etc. It is also designed so that the'bristles may beclipped in the bastin liquid without pulling out the roasting pan fromthe oven to reach it. Further, a portion of the handle and the holder orcasing for the bristles is shaped to present flat surfaces upon whichthe brush as a whole may be supported with the bristles in uprightposition.

These and other features of the invention will be best understood andappreciated from the following description of a preferred embodimentthereof selected for purposes of illustration and shown in theaccompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a view of the brush in elevation, and

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary plan view of the bristle end of the brush.

The illustrated embodiment of the invention includes a hollow tubularhandle of anodized aluminum or other light-weight metal. At its outerend this tube is inserted firmly in an enlarged gripping body 11constructed of any material non-conductive of heat such as hard woodwhich will not get hot in use. The grip is rectangular or square incross section and presenting four plane surfaces of which the uppersurface, shown in Fig. l, is substantially parallel though slightlyconvergent with respect to the axis of the handle.

At its other end the material of the handle is flattened to form anattaching flange 12 and to this is secured a compact body of bristles13. The bristles are contained within and shaped by an elongatedrectangular casing 14 2,834,037 iatented May 13, 1958 'ice having a flatback plate 15 which is permanently secured to the attaching flange 12 byrivets. The bristles themselves form a rectangular body which isdisposed with its longitudinal axis in the same plane as the axis of thehandle. It will be readily seen that this is the most convenientarrangement of the bristles for reaching over the sides of the roastingpan into the basting liquid, and also the most convenient position forbrushing and spreading the basting liquid upon the various surfaces ofthe roast.

The construction above described has the further important advantagethat the brush may be laid on any flat surface and supported in thatposition by the outer end of the back plate 15 and the correspondingflat surface of the gripping body 11 with the bristles held in uprightposition where they are kept clean themselves and do not foul theunderlying surface upon which the brush may be placed.

The position of the body of bristles with respect to the axis of thehandle is an important feature of the invention and is indicated inFig. 1. When the body of bristles is rectangular, its longitudinal axiswill diverge at approximately 20 with respect to the axis of the handle.

Having thus disclosed my invention and described in detail anillustrative embodiment, I claim as new and desire to secure by LettersPatent:

A new and improved basting brush comprising a body of pliant bristlesenclosed in and extending from the bottom of a rectangular casing, arectangular flat back plate attached to the rectangular top of saidcasing, an elongated tubular metal handle rigidly connected to said backplate and extending longitudinally and outwardly therefrom, there beingan acute angle between the plane of said back plate and the longitudinalaxis of said handle, and a gripping body composed of a heat insulatingmaterial rigidly connected to the extremity of said handle, saidgripping body having its upper portion terminating in a straighttransverse edge at the end remote from the brush, said edge beingparallel to the upper, outer transverse edge of the back plate, wherebysaid brush will have contact with a fiat supporting surface only at itsopposite ends with its bristles extending in an upward direction.

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